Just finished Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy. Possibly the most violent book I've ever read. I followed the ostensible storyline, but the end left me wondering. I'm not closed. I allowed this book to open gaping wounds and vents in my psyche, then it lost me. I may read it over again, but I don't know that I would learn anything. I feel I may have been too fast in reading it. I finished it in one day; a long day, albeit; but one day. I skipped over his ramblings when I wasn't in the mood, writing them off as theatric. Maybe that was it.
Or maybe it wasn't meant to be understood directly. I want to consult with someone on this.
I'll let synchronicity take me to my next learning.
[Another note: I read it again over the next two days, and it sat much better with me on that reading. I had been pushing it too hard.]
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